A vast, clear freshwater lake in the far north of Mongolia, near the Russian border, surrounded by mountains and larch forest, called the 'Blue Pearl'. It holds about 70% of Mongolia's fresh water. Ride horses, kayak, and meet reindeer-herding Tsaatan families in the taiga.
The lake freezes in winter, when there's an ice festival. Khatgal at the southern end is the gateway, reached via Mörön.
Mongolia's oldest surviving Buddhist monastery, founded in 1585 near the ruins of Karakorum, Genghis Khan's capital, surrounded by a wall topped with…
Mongolia's most important Buddhist monastery, one of the few that survived communist purges in the 1930s, with hundreds of monks.
Mongolia's great national festival, held on 11 to 13 July, with the 'three manly games': wrestling, horse racing, with child jockeys riding across th…
A national park of granite rocks, forests and grassy valleys about 70 km from Ulaanbaatar, the easiest place to taste the Mongolian countryside.
The Gobi isn't all sand, but Khongoryn Els are huge 'singing dunes', up to 300 m high and 100 km long, which hum when the sand slides.
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